{"id":64,"date":"2026-06-23T13:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/computing-and-communications\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:50:18","slug":"software-engineering-and-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/computing-and-communications\/software-engineering-and-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Software engineering and design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sead.open.ac.uk\/\">Software Engineering and Design<\/a>&nbsp;group investigates and develops systematic approaches for engineering secure, adaptive and usable software systems in a complex and changing world. They research techniques in several software engineering areas, motivated by and evaluated within various application domains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research areas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Automated software engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Requirements engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Engineering adaptice software systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Empirical studies of software development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>User experience design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Application domains<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Aeronautics and aerospace<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Health and wellbeing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Policing and forensics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Security and privacy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sustainability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sead.open.ac.uk\/\">Software Engineering and Design<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Group lead<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/ban25\">Prof Bashar Nuseibeh<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Software Engineering and Design&nbsp;group investigates and develops systematic approaches for engineering secure, adaptive and usable software systems in a complex and changing world. 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